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Creative 52x Cdrom screwed up

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Depressed

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Jun 26, 2003
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Hello, There seems to be a intermittent problem with my cdrom. I popped in a pirated game in my cdrom, and All I hear is "click.....Click.......Click, and then cd ejects. Now, Immediaetly after, when I pop in a real cd, such as diablo2, the cd ejects after the same noises, and all my cds dont work. Please, Can anyone tell me whats going on?
 
I had a simular CD noise. It turned out to be the small gear inside that closes the tray. One of the teeth had stripped. Does the door reopen by itself? DOes resetting the computer after the error reset the CD-ROM?

 
as Comtutor said, suspect the tray mechanicals.

Creative seems to favor overly-complicated tray mechanisms. I have had several to repair. the drawer will go in, but not finish the load process, the click is the gear slipping.

get you receipt , take it back.

(ps if it is an older player - it may not be capable of reading cdr's)
 
CD-ROM drives are pretty cheap, huck it and get a new one.
 
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